Aesthetic Hysteria

Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, bringing together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic theory, speech act theory, feminism, and gender and performance studies.

Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK.

Preface, Acknowledgments, Chapter One: Introduction: Stuck in the Gullet of the Signifier: Desire, Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Hysteria, Chapter Two: Too Much, Too Little: The Emotional Capital of Victorian Melodrama, Chapter Three: Missed Encounters: Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, Chapter Four: Broken English: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy, Chapter Five: Emetic Theory: Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index